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June 10, 2020June 9, 2020 / Barbecue Bros / Leave a comment

The Wilber’s Barbecue pits have officially been refired

This is how it’s done 🔥

We shovel coals all night, every half hour, for about 12 hours, while the pig cooks, low & slow, over oak embers #pitcooked #bbqpit #bbq #ncbbq #wilbersbbq pic.twitter.com/I4Oc7hjPRA
— Wilbers Barbecue (@wilbersbbq) June 6, 2020

Congrats to Desiree Robinson of Cozy Corner Restaurant, 2020 BBQ Hall of Fame Inductee and the first African-American woman to be honored with that distinction

Honoring 2020 @AmericanRoyal BBQ Hall of Fame Inductee Desiree Robinson, a Memphis Barbecue Legend https://t.co/IxhCaH17vQ
— Robert F. Moss (@mossr) June 10, 2020

Backyard Barbecue Pit is a black-owned restaurant to support in the Triangle of NC

Readers have been asking for a list of Triangle area black owned businesses. We've started one https://t.co/DOsxjpFqab
— WRAL OutandAbout (@WRALOutandAbout) June 3, 2020

Black-owned barbecue restaurants that ship overnight nationwide: Bludso’s BBQ, Interstate Barbecue, The Bar-B-Q Shop (sauces)

Jones Bar-B-Q is among this list of black owned businesses to support

30 Black-Owned Food and Drink Businesses to Support Now, and Always https://t.co/qa3c3aMfvA
— Esquire Food (@ESQFood) June 8, 2020

Greg Gatlin of Gatlin’s BBQ in Houston spoke with Rien Fertel in this oral history for Foodways Texas in 2013

Check out our conversation with Greg Gatlin owner of Houston's @GatlinsBBQ. He talks about the early days of Gatlin's, its roots in his family's traditions, Houston barbecue, and much more. https://t.co/OvnOnx2ZdJ pic.twitter.com/pp6rx0MMkx
— Foodways Texas (@foodwaysTX) June 8, 2020

Helen Turner of Helen’s Bar-B-Que was interviewed by the Southern Foodways in 2012

“The Cooking Gene” by Michael Twitty has been on my list and I need to get around to it

.@KosherSoul's memoir, "The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South," explores the issue of race in Southern cuisine through his own ancestry. Learn more about the book and where you can purchase it. https://t.co/9e26QlSeQq
— Serious Eats (@seriouseats) June 9, 2020

Derrick Walker’s of Smoke-A-Holics BBQ in Fort Worth is one of four pitmasters to help the backyard smoker

Four Texas pitmasters share their tips on backyard barbecuing, which really isn't all that different from the meat smoking they do day in and day out, give or take a few pounds. https://t.co/qry1Po0YRQ
— Texas Monthly (@TexasMonthly) June 8, 2020

Lolis Eric Elie remembers David McAtee

https://twitter.com/soulphoodie/status/1270381270804168707

Linkdown: 11/27/19

November 27, 2019November 26, 2019 / Barbecue Bros / 1 Comment

More on Wyatt’s Barbecue, coming to downtown Raleigh in late 2020

"I want to be first and foremost, a good steward of North Carolina barbecue," says Wyatt Dickson, the co-owner and pitmaster at @picnicdurham. Dickson announced plans this week to open a new barbecue joint in Raleigh in the fall of 2020. https://t.co/V5N7MduP1A
— INDY Week (@indyweek) November 22, 2019

Pork belly burnt ends were first served at Fort Worth’s Heim BBQ, writes Texas Monthly BBQ Editor Daniel Vaughn

.@bbqsnob: @heimbbq posted the first photo of its original bacon burnt ends on March 9, 2015. Since then, these sweet and savory cubes of smoked pork belly have gone global. https://t.co/ElWIUrkEGD
— Texas Monthly (@TexasMonthly) November 22, 2019

Photographer Kelly Yandell has some photos from the TMBBQ Festival earlier this month

Wood’s Chapel BBQ makes Thrillist Atlanta’s list of Best New Restaurants of 2019

Thank you @Thrillist! #Atlanta's Best New Restaurants of 2019 https://t.co/9GyjYxck3e ☺️
— Wood's Chapel BBQ (@woodschapelbbq) November 22, 2019

Doug Saul’s BBQ and Seafood in Nashville, NC has temporarily closed due to salmonella, the first such incident in its 42 years

Boulevard Barbeque is coming to Morganton later this year or early next year, and will be smoking all the meats on a gas-assisted Old Hickory

New Zion Church BBQ in Huntsville, TX has closed after 53 years

The sad closing of Huntsville’s Church’s BBQ reveals Texas’s long history of African American barbecue and its association with local religious institutions. https://t.co/jOHA2jkT3C
— Foodways Texas (@foodwaysTX) November 26, 2019

Just gonna leave this here:

Cooking barbecue isn’t complicated, it is no different than cooking in an oven before ovens existed.. https://t.co/Hsk4Zsrn4I
— Fox Bros Bar-B-Q (@foxbrosbarbq) November 26, 2019

Linkdown: 1/10/18

January 10, 2018January 9, 2018 / Barbecue Bros / Leave a comment

– A small smoker has been stolen from the Durham restaurant It’s a Southern Thing

– Jelly: 52 weeks of barbecue in 2018 for the San Antonio Express News

Tacos? Tacos are so 2017. We’re onto BBQ now. Fifty-two weeks of it, to be exact. So join @fedmanwalking and @chuck_blount as we begin this new meatiest of adventures.https://t.co/VwZe6Z90U0

— San Antonio E-N (@ExpressNews) January 5, 2018

– The recent cold snap in NC (as well as the rest of the eastern seaboard) is no thing for hogs and their modern climate controlled barns

– A new restaurant from the folks at Stiles Switch

The latest details on @StilesSwitchBBQ‘s new restaurant https://t.co/iPnbATollh

— Eater Austin (@EaterAustin) January 4, 2018

– Fort Worth Magazine has the quintessential guide to Fort Worth barbecue

– Sadly, about a 100 employees were affected

Employees found out the restaurant closed Wednesday morning by phone call and a sign on the door. https://t.co/KPV69dVIu3

— The News & Observer (@newsobserver) January 4, 2018

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